OS Command Injection in Abrt - CVE-2025-12744
Published: December 8, 2025 / Updated: December 17, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU119261
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-12744
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: ABRT
Affected software:
Abrt
Abrt
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to software extracts a 12-byte substring from user-controlled mount information and embedding it verbatim into a shell command constructed with g_strdup_printf("docker inspect %s", container_id). A local user can execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-12744
Install updates from vendor's website.